Confirmed
Drupal Advanced
Presentation on Saturday 19 July 2008
at 11:00 AM
Presenters
Description
Drupal websites are, almost by definition, continually in flux. Most vibrant Drupal sites are continually adding content and refining features. This can lead to several different situations:
- The website is 'goofed up' in some way (e.g. by a well-intentioned person with a bit too much power) and a revert-all-changes-to-sometime-this-morning-before-that-happened button would be helpful.
- New features are ready for testing (and hopeful approval) by the people who've asked for those features. Ideally, they ought to be able to test those features against an exact copy of the live website; they ought to see no changes other than the ones they've asked for (and not report the fact that there are missing images or be asked to discern that some kinds of broken things are ok, while other kinds of broken things are not).
- Something strange is happening and you, as a developer, need to figure out what is going on. An exact copy of the live site and its content would be a helpful starting point.
Backup and Migrate is a module that is useful for backing up and migrating a Drupal database. When used in combination with File Defer, the two provide a fast, easy and reliable solution for the above situations. Together, they can replace phpMyAdmin (and associated hassles) and the copying of oodles of uploaded files from place to place.
The presentation will address installing and configuring these modules and talk through their practical applications in various real-world settings.
